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Speakers warned that the notion that ‘more is better’ is driving a market of highly-concentrated ‘herbal’ supplements that no longer resemble the plant of origin and may even pose a risk to consumer health.These concerns were raised at the 73rd International Congress and Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant and Natural Product Research (GA) held in Naples, Italy from Sept 1 to 3. The event brought together hundreds of professionals from across academia and industry to share scientific and technological insights.Dr. Olaf Kelber, biologist, toxicologist and steering committee member for the Botanical Safety Consortium and Dr. Stefan Gafner,…
Eppendorf today announced the worldwide sales start of its next generation of mechanical pipettes, the Eppendorf Research® 3 neo. The new pipettes offer renowned Eppendorf accuracy and precision, faster or easier volume selection, optimized ergonomics with a shorter pipetting button, and adaptable settings and accessories to customize the pipetting experience for speed, comfort, or accuracy in different applications.The new pipettes have been on sale in selected countries throughout Asia since August and are now also available in EMEA and the Americas. The Research 3 neo pipette is highly adaptable, allowing users to easily speed up or fine-tune volume changes by…
Dates are delicious natural sweeteners, but they’re not the only food that can sweeten an energy ball. Make a batch of these energy balls that are sweetened with other dried fruits like apricots, currants and raisins. They also feature satisfying nut and seed butters to help keep these tasty bites intact while adding some staying power. Recipes like our Blueberry Cobbler Energy Balls and our Caramel Delight Energy Balls can help you feel nourished and energized between meals. Love any of these recipes? Join MyRecipes to save, search and organize your EatingWell recipes all in one place. It’s free! Sticky…
BiOkuris has discovered that its synbiotic BK002 offers notable benefits for gastrointestinal symptoms and significantly reduces anxiety. Nutrition Insight speaks with the company to learn more about irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and the reasons why synbiotics are considered superior for its treatment. Evaluated in its clinical study, Vitabiotic, a IBS treatment, had an 83% responder rate. “BK002 is unique because it clinically demonstrates dual efficacy on gut and mood symptoms across all IBS subtypes, something very few — if any — non-Rx products on the market have achieved with robust data,” Dr. Benoit Palms, Chief Business Officer, tells us.François Blondel, CEO of…
EverlyWell 360 didn’t just tell me my numbers. It told me what to do about them. I got clarity on my hormones, nutrition, and cholesterol, plus tangible steps I can take right now—like adjusting my supplement stack, tweaking my diet, and retesting certain markers down the road.
After a topsy-turvy eclipse weekend, the dust settles a bit this week as we take time to reflect. And between the sun and Mercury linking up in Virgo, and a quarter moon in Gemini, it’s actually the perfect time for deep thinking. Here’s your horoscope.
Smartphones are so woven into daily life that most of us carry them everywhere — including into the bathroom. While it may seem like a harmless way to pass a few minutes while we poop, new research suggests this habit could have an unintended consequence: a nearly 50 percent increased risk of hemorrhoids.[1]Until now, there’s been no published evidence on the impact of smartphones on our “toileting habits,” says the senior author of the study, Trisha Pasricha, MD, MPH, a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and the author of the forthcoming book You’ve Been Pooping All Wrong.“The…
HelloFresh was among the first meal kit delivery services in the U.S., but its seniority doesn’t make it complacent or stagnant. In fact, the meal delivery service is continually innovating. Earlier this month, HelloFresh introduced a new menu featuring high-protein recipes every week. Each week, subscribers will also have access to over 100 recipes (that’s twice as many options as before), and at least 15 of those recipes will be high in protein—all at no extra cost. In advance of this new launch, the kind folks at HelloFresh sent me one of their weekly boxes to test and review. I…
In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human microbiome, researchers have turned their attention to an innovative approach inspired by nature, specifically marine corals. These organisms boast complex, porous structures that serve as habitats for expansive microbial communities in the ocean’s depths. Now, scientists have adapted this biological design to create a groundbreaking ingestible pill capable of sampling bacteria from the human small intestine, a region notoriously difficult to study due to its inaccessibility. The newly developed device, known as the CORAL (Cellularly Organized Repeating Lattice) capsule, has been engineered by Khalil Ramadi, an assistant professor of bioengineering…
A comparison of the images and an overlay, provided by a sleuth to Retraction Watch.Image credit:Retraction WatchA journal has retracted a study on ‘Tin Man Syndrome’ plagiarized from a decade-old April Fools’ joke—which the author now admits was fake.On August 15, we wrote about a “rare case report” published in Medicine in which authors claimed they had encountered a case of “ectopia cordis interna” and described an asymptomatic man with his heart located in his abdomen. Sleuths believed the case report plagiarized images from a 2015 satirical paper describing a condition of the same name.A week later on August 22,…